Commentary from today's thoroughly enjoyable Hack Day by @thesambarnes (with gems from his enviable gif folder) http://globaldev.co.uk/2015/07/hack-day-live/
Video of the Tech Talk I presented to my @globaldev team on the #indieweb and why it's important you #ownyourdata https://vimeo.com/globaldev/tech-talk-indieweb
Introducing tickbot:
Tickbot is a very simple app/script that reminds our team in Slack to do their time tracking in Tick and cheerfully name-and-shames those who forgot the next morning.
It’s clever enough to adapt to weekends and UK bank holidays so people aren’t incorrectly nagged.
I’m pleased to report that while our team have already started to curse tickbot when he badgers them, so far no one has forgotten to submit their time. Well done, tickbot.
The source is available on GitHub if you’d...
We’ve been trying out Slack in the globaldev office. It’s the best alternative to Campfire I’ve seen and is free for now (with an invite), but the standard post-beta pricing ($8/user/month) looks steep for our team of ~50 compared to our unlimited $99/month with Campfire.
Our team at @globaldev are producing some superb in-depth articles right now.
Whatever your level of Ruby you’ll learn something from @matsadler 's Ruby Tips which follows his epic Ruby 2.0.0 in Detail from earlier in the year.
Meanwhile @james_allardice delves into the many changes in ECMAScript 6 (aka JavaScript). The days of rollover JS are long gone.